In an administration in which the head of the Environmental Protection Agency sued the organization 14 times as a private citizen; the secretary of Housing and Urban Development has criticized agency rules intended to desegregate housing; the Department of Education secretary would just as soon do away with public schools; and the likely next leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has pushed for limiting how much data the National Weather Service can publicly release, it is not entirely surprising to find that a Trump official in charge of community outreach has also made racist and a bigoted comments about African-Americans and Islam.

Before he took over the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships, former radio host Jamie Johnson accused the black community of turning cities into “slums” and disparaged Islam as “an ideology that is posing as a religion that is standing against everything that America was built upon,” CNN reports. Johnson, whom then-D.H.S. Secretary John Kelly appointed to lead the agency’s community outreach division in April, appeared frequently on conservative talk-radio programs, including his own weekend show.

In on-air comments during a 2008 appearance on Accent Radio Network, he said that, “It’s an indictment of America’s black community that has turned America’s major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity.” Appearing on the Iowa radio program Mickelson in the Morning, Johnson said that “Islam is not our friend,” adding, “I agree with [conservative pundit] Dinesh D’Souza, your friend and mine, who says all that Islam has ever given us is oil and dead bodies over the last millennia and a half. . . . It is not a religion of peace.”

Ironically, the division Johnson is tasked with overseeing was created in 2006 in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita to “engage a broader cross-section of faith and community-based organizations in all stages of the disaster sequence and provide resources for faith and community leaders to help them prepare for emergency situations.”

Johnson apologized for the comments in a statement to CNN, saying that he regrets “the manner in which those thoughts were expressed in the past, but can say unequivocally that they do not represent my views personally or professionally.” However, following CNN’s publication of his comments, The New York Timesreported that Johnson had resigned. The D.H.S. also issued a statement, saying that Johnson’s remarks “clearly do not reflect the values of D.H.S. and the administration,” and that the department “thanks him for his recent work assisting disaster victims and the interfaith community.”